Gregory's ServerI made a PR to Mastodon to see if they are interested in merging the exclusive lists feature from #Hometown
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@cinebox Hm, yeah. I mean I specifically avoided a term like private, but I see what you mean. @darius some feedback. not sure what but the name needs work. Otherwise seems like a good feature. There is def work here to be done and people I see talking about this kind of feature, good work. @darius let me think about it a bit, when I read the wiki link I liked the 'friends' concept. that is what clicked for me, before that I couldn't figure out what was 'exclusive'. 'friends' is the key takeaway here, something personal. I will try to think of something. @d3cline Yeah. The thing is it's not about friends necessarily -- I also use it as kind of a quarantine zone for accounts that post too often but I still want to follow occasionally. @darius any chance instead of a bool it can be a numbered list or an dictionary type object with names. Like labels? @darius I like the what its doing, but could see it being done in many different sub-feeds. Like I could filter by topic and have topic feeds. Many users tend to be very focused. So maybe one for 'tech' and one for 'politics' or 'news' or what have you. Then the 'exclusive' concept is extended for use cases defined by the user. @d3cline Oh: that is too complicated. I thought about doing that and decided against it. Someone who is not me is welcome to implement the feature you describe @darius I would keep pushing what you got then, it seems like it could be helpful and a stop-gap to the more complex version of the feature. @darius and the removing them from the home feed means I can add more content there and do more filtering etc, it acts somewhat like a queue after that. @darius @d3cline whatever it gets called I’ve been wanting this feature ever since joining the mastodon fun. There are a good few accounts I’d like to have in a list to check in on now and then but I really want muted in my main feed. I know I could follow them by rss instead but doesn’t make sense doing so outside of mastodon if it can be helped. Try calling it a "filtered" list. As in posts from everyone on this list get filtered from the main feed, + only get seen when you look at this list. 1. As in your design, this property gets toggled on a per-list basis. 2. A given account could still be included on multiple lists (regardless of this setting).A 3. BONUS UX: Any per-user Block/Mute affordances get a prepopulated "Filter to..." action to choose a filtered list to join. Really? Given how the content filtering page is currently worded, that implication is a surprise to me. As written, it talks about contexts where copies of a given post do or don't get "hidden". Indeed, the words "as if" imply that the post isn't gone, you just don't see it in (some of) the usual context(s). Indeed, I deliberately chose to reuse the concept of filtering because email (+ other) filters work exactly the way you want this to.   A lot of y’all would be interested in the above. If you’ve got a GitHub account it would be worth upvoting commenting. This lets you follow people, put them in lists, and choose not to see them in your Home feed. Great for avoiding the current problem of seeing posts twice @poswald The answers are: yes, yes, and yes. More detail here: https://github.com/hometown-fork/hometown/wiki/Exclusive-lists @darius functionally-wise this is really cool. There’s something odd about a list affecting the Home feed though. Maybe I’m just to used to twitters idea that “timeline is all your follows” and “lists can contain non-follows”. That’s perhaps conceptually simpler. I’ll gh upvote this feature though @poswald I definitely don't want lists that can contain non-follows (also it's actually impossible because following is a mutual-consent thing on the protocol here: you ask the remote user to send posts to you -- you don't pull posts from the remote user) @darius interesting that it’s not even easily implemented … didn’t know that. I know there’s also the debate about if it encourages abuse… just a power user thing I miss. As for this feature I think it’s good. it feels like you're doing a “rules and filtering” approach like sieve at some level https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sieve_(mail_filtering_language)   @darius Yes, please! Would love to be able to quarantine certain things from my Home feed. @darius I would call these "follow lists", because (as I understand it) it's essentially just like the existing Follows+timeline, but corresponding to an different set of follows.  |
@darius I feel like the verbiage could be improved. At first reflex I assumed “exclusive” meant “this list is not shared with other users”